Updated at 6:40 p.m., Sunday, October 22, 2006
Man, 18, killed in North Shore accident
Advertiser Staff
An 18-year-old man was killed and two others injured early today in a single-car crash on Farrington Highway, two-tenths of a mile west of Ho'omana Place.Lisa Reed, the lead police vehicular homicide investigator for the accident, said speed and alcohol appear to be contributing factors in the 2:40 a.m. crash near the Dillingham Airfield and Gliderport.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office identified the man killed as Bobby Gouveia of Waialua. Gouveia, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was the front-seat passenger in a westbound 1991 Acura Integra that police said veered across the center line on Farrington Highway and struck a utility pole and fence.
The car flipped over several times and landed on the airfield's grounds.
The driver of the car, an 18-year-old Hale'iwa man, and a rear-seat passenger, a 17-year-old boy, are at The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition.
All three graduated from Waialua High School last year.
The death is O'ahu's 77th traffic fatality of the year as compared to 61 on the same date in 2005.
